mistakes Harbor, a castellated abbey for the rich to flee the pandemic Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants It's Poe's birthday, so here's Neil Gaiman reading The Raven Cory Doctorow

Games Listen to William S. Burroughs read Edgar Allen Poe for a PC game David Pescovitz

Painting found in basement by junk dealer is a Picasso Allan Rose Hill

politics New York mayor Eric Adams indicted in corruption probe Rob Beschizza

art Porcelain Ai Weiwei sculpture smashed by "notorious vandal" Rob Beschizza

law Sean "Diddy" Combs complains about how unpleasant New York's jails are Rob Beschizza

musk Elon Musk, from behind a massive army of bodyguards, now tweeting 150+ times a day Rob Beschizza

music White people in the 80s rapping about karate Thom Dunn

law Hunter Biden pleads guilty to tax evasion Rob Beschizza

Democrats question Trump about that illegal donation from Egypt Jason Weisberger

Mr. Brain Worms and Orangey McOrangeface desperately cling to one another Ellsworth Toohey

horror "The Unmothers" is Lovecraft for horses and abortion rights Thom Dunn

christian heritage sites The most incredible sculpture I've ever seen: The Chronicle of Georgia Natalie Dressed

sharks Curious great white shark follows kayakers fishing off San Francisco Bay Area coast (video) Allan Rose Hill

gadgets Teenage Engineering goes Medieval with new sampler Rob Beschizza

crime Steve Bannon's fundraising fraud trial set for December Rob Beschizza

writing Stephen King's shameless self-promotion on NY Times' "best books" list amuses and outrages Natalie Dressed

poetry Erotic Serbian folktales from the 19th century Natalie Dressed